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PINCEMENT [10 records]

Record 1 2022-10-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Steering Systems (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
  • Servicing and Maintenance (Motor Vehicles and Bicycles)
DEF

... a slight inward alignment of the forward edge of a motor vehicle's front wheels to improve steering and minimize tire wear.

OBS

toe-in: term officially approved by the Lexicon Project Committee (New Brunswick).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Direction (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
  • Entretien et réparation (Véhicules automobiles et bicyclettes)
DEF

Convergence, dans le sens de la marche, des roues avant [d'un véhicule automobile].

OBS

pincement; pincement positif : termes uniformisés par le Comité du projet de lexiques (Nouveau-Brunswick).

Spanish

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Record 2 2012-08-02

English

Subject field(s)
  • Graphic Arts and Printing

French

Domaine(s)
  • Imprimerie et arts graphiques

Spanish

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Record 3 2011-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Metals Mining
DEF

A thin place in a mineral zone or where the zone itself almost or quite disappears and in other places widens out into extensive bodies of ore.

CONT

Pinches [are] the narrow portions of lodes, veins or orebodies.

OBS

As opposed to "swell."

French

Domaine(s)
  • Mines métalliques
DEF

Zone resserrée dans un filon, une couche ou un amas minéralisé.

Spanish

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Record 4 2001-06-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • Petroleum Deposits
  • Geology
DEF

A geological structure that forms a trap for oil and gas by virtue of a porous and permeable rock ending or stopping against an impervious formation.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Gisements pétrolifères
  • Géologie
CONT

Piège par pincement.

Spanish

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Record 5 2000-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Rehabilitation (Medicine)

French

Domaine(s)
  • Réadaptation (Médecine)
DEF

Technique de massage consistant à étirer rapidement les tissus entre le pouce et l'index.

Spanish

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Record 6 1999-11-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Plant and Crop Production
DEF

... the removal, usually by nipping between finger and thumb, of the soft extremities of young shoots of woody plants ....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Cultures (Agriculture)
DEF

Suppression de l'extrémité d'un jeune rameau par une coupe entre l'ongle du pouce et l'index. [Ceci] favorise le développement des bourgeons, des ramifications ou des fruits.

Spanish

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Record 7 1993-07-12

English

Subject field(s)
  • Freight Service (Rail Transport)
DEF

The slight convergence given to the wooden guide rails to prevent excess movement of a product loaded by the floating method.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Trafic marchandises (Transport par rail)
DEF

Faible convergence des glissières fixées au plancher d'un wagon afin de réduire les mouvements d'un chargement flottant.

Spanish

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Record 8 1986-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ornamental Glassware
  • Glassware
  • Collection Items (Museums and Heritage)
OBS

Glass National Reference Collection, Parks Canada: Display cabinet labels.

OBS

Manufacturing techniques.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Verrerie d'art
  • Objets en verre
  • Objets de collection (Muséologie et Patrimoine)

Spanish

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Record 9 1985-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Lamp Components
DEF

Part of a lamp composed of a mass of glass into which the seal wire(s) are sealed.

CONT

In lamps with a stem, the pinch [stem press USA] is formed by fusing together the end of the stem tube, the exhaust tube and the stud [arbor].

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éléments de lampes
DEF

Partie d'une lampe, constituée par une masse de verre dans laquelle sont scellées la ou les traversées de courant.

CONT

Dans les lampes munies d'un pied, le pincement est formé par la fusion de l'extrémité du tube de pied, du queusot et éventuellement de la tige.

Spanish

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Record 10 1985-03-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Silviculture

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sylviculture

Spanish

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